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Greendog is one of those games that will always stick out in my memory from my childhood. It's games like that... they weren't necessarily the best games ever, but they really stuck out for what ever reason. Just like Toejam and Earl.

Yeah I know what you mean. When I'm playing Greendog I feel like I shouldn't be enjoying it as much as I am. I remember being very interested in it when I was a kid before I owned a Genesis. Of course, by the time I did own one Sonic was out so I forgot other platformers existed for a while.

merlin wrote:
I completed Metro 2033 and am currently on my second playthrough trying to get the alternate ending this time. An excellent game with an engaging story and creepy atmosphere. Traveling through the Moscow metro system after the outside world has been ravaged by nuclear war, facing vicious mutants and hostile factions is an epic journey. Some of those mutants were quite scary especially the 'Librarians' in the Depository!

Nice to read you liked it! The librarians were especially memorable, East-European mutant artwork at its best. In case you're interested, the novels are pretty good too (except for the second book). Besides the main plot around Artyom, there are several spin-offs taking place in other Metro systems like the one of St. Petersburg. Metro 2033: Piter for example is absolutely fantastic.

Have you already noticed how many details the developers built in? For example, while searching for the documents in the state library, one of your comrades picks up a book called 'Roadside Picnic' and says the book would remind him of something. In fact Roadside Picnic was the novel on which Stalker, the 1979 film, was based. The film on the other hand was the main inspiration for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, and therefore also Metro 2033.

Thanks for the info Murikov. I hardly ever read fiction these days but the story really appeals to me so I may well check out the Metro novels. I noticed on Wikipedia it mentions there's going to be a film adaptation too which is exciting news.

I don't remember when that happened in the library but I'll check it out next time. The anomalies in the game reminded me of Stalker and also at the start of the Dead City level Bourbon talks about 'Stalkers'. I still haven't watched that 1979 Stalker film.

My Genesis collection grew significantly again today. I bought every boxed game for the Genesis that the local game shop had as long as it wasn't a sports game. Oh, and one sports game. A few of these I just bought so that he'd give me a deal on the games I really wanted. And it worked. Over $100 worth of games for $65. All CIB unless otherwise noted:

Comix Zone was by far the most expensive one. It even has the bonus disc in it still though, so that's awesome. Some of these are doubles for me so they'll either be given away or sold off on Ebay. I've tested about half of them so far and I have to say that Demolition Man is the biggest surprise so far. It's not perfect, but it's really fun and much much better than I expected.

EDIT: Genesis collection just hit 70 games. 45 CIB, 51 if you count doubles but some of those doubles will be leaving soon.
Edited by reelmojo on 08. March 2013 03:15

cthulhu wrote:
Even though I really don't like SF3 3rd Strike, I've bought SF3 2nd Impact...way better stages and the music is also better.

Agree about 3rd Strike's graphical and musical presentation, 'New Generation' and '2nd Impact' are far more gorgeous. A complete version with all characters, music tracks and stages would have been great.

Chtulhu: Nice purchase! I´ve been a been put off to buy SF3 because of the somewhat delicate system it runs on...

Thanks. I dont know how delicate the CPS-3 system is, but my board has a small problem with the volume pot. If not in a good position, the volume drops almost completely after a while and gives some crackling sounds...just find the "sweet spot" and everything's fine. The nice thing about SFIII 2I is the fact that the security cartridge actually doesn't need a battery, so if you remove it, the cartridge doesn't suicide.
For the first time I'm actually enjoying SFIII, the music is still not as good as it used to be and not even close to SNK's soundtracks, but it's acceptable and a lot better than the horrible music from SFIII 3rd Strike. The stages are so much better than the well drawn but extremely boring ones from 3rd Strike, some of the stages in 2I have breakable objects and most have nice background animation. Gill is still a cheap bastard though.
The only thing missing now is the kick harness...the parts are on their way...quite difficult to play this game with only three buttons.

I bought another CP System game recently: Pnickies. It cost 7350 Yen and was bought from Sophia Corp. Seems to be quite a rare PCB so I'm surprised the price was so low. I guess it's just not a very well known or popular game.

Thanks, Merlin. I absolutely love the Golden Axe series and eventually will have a complete collection of all of them including the crappy Game Gear spin-off staring Ax Battler. I already have Golden Axe Warrior which is one of the more expensive games in the series (but worth every penny) so the biggest hurdle in my way now is importing Golden Axe III... unless I get really serious and add a Revenge of Death Adder arcade board to my collection.

Although I've been really focusing on collecting Genesis games I took a trip today to all of the thrift stores and pawn shops in the area to see what I could find and didn't come home with a single one. I got a few other games at good prices though.

For those who don't know, Playstation Underground was a "magazine" of sorts in the US during the PS1 days. Instead of an actual paper magazine though it came on two PS1 discs loaded with trailers, behind the scenes videos, game demos, and even some demos of import games that would never see the light of day in the US. There were 4 issues a year so V2.4 means this was the last issue of the second year.

Today, I've removed the suicide battery from the SFIII 2I cartridge and after some simple soldering, I've got it working. Now I've got SFIII 2I with a Zombie cartridge working completely without the infamous suicide battery...no more worrying about changing batteries for me!!! I'm so relieved that it worked out and that I've not killed the game.

Oh yeah, also got another arcade game on it's way...one that I've been wanting for a long time. Pictures when it arrives...

Thanks...now I can even burn the ISO from other CPS-3 games when they're released and install them on the mobo and use the SFIII 2I cart as security cartridge...someone is changing the ISO of all games so they'll work with the Zombie cartridge.

All I want to say about my new buy is that it's a Fighter that's not released on any console and that it's not properly emulated in MAME.
It's coming from Germany, so it probably not going to take long to arrive with DHL.

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